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Bike Share Annual Permit Recommendations

Seattle City Council Sustainability and Transportation Committee

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Presentation Outline

• Evaluation Update
• Review key annual permit recommendations
• Review legislation required for fee changes

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Evaluation Update

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Evaluation Update

Positive Results

• 1.4 million rides
• Citywide coverage

Improvement needed

• Parking management
• Equity

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Permit Recommendations

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Permit Approach

• Annual and competitive
• Companies must re-apply
• Maintain control of use of public ROW
• Iterative
• Apply lessons learned with each iteration
• Flexible
• Allows for small adjustments as new lessons learned
• Evolving industry
• Unpredictable future of industry

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Five Recommendations

• 1. Allow for more growth
• 2. Create a proactive compliance and enforcement program
• 3. Create a bike share parking area program
• 4. Align permit with desired SDOT equity outcomes
• 5. Adjust permit fees to remain no-cost to the city

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Recommendation 1

Lesson Learned: Potential for growth Pilot:

• Almost 10,000 bikes
• 3 permits awarded to first 3 companies

Proposal:

• Overall fleet cap to 20,000 bikes citywide
• Split among 4 companies

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Recommendation 2

Lesson Learned: Need for proactive compliance & enforcement program Pilot: Permit compliance based on complaint-response Proposal:

• Parking and rider education plans required for permit
• Third party semi-annual audits of:
• Parking
• Maintenance
• Data
• Penalties that compel compliance

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Recommendation 3

Lesson Learned: Need for more parking

capacity and clarity

Pilot: Installed 5 paint-only bike share

spots in Ballard

Proposal:

• Expand and evolve designated bike

share parking areas.

• Include furniture zone and in-street

corrals

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Recommendation 4

Lesson Learned: Align permit with SDOT equity outcomes Pilot: 20% Tier 1 equity area coverage requirement Proposal:

• Increased equity requirements:
• City-wide coverage & targeted rebalancing
• Low income-plan
• Ongoing DON / SDOT Transportation Equity Engagement Partnership
• Options for those without smartphones and credit cards
• Adaptive cycle share partnership
• Trikes, handcycles

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Recommendation 5

Lesson Learned: More funding needed to remain no-cost to city Pilot: $15 per bike administrative fee for 6 – 12 month permit Solutions: $250,000 per permit fee to address “lessons learned”

• Approximately $30 per bike for administration
• Approximately $20 per bike for bike parking program

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Fee Breakdown

$250,000 per permit

• Administrative fee
• $370,000 - Staff time for 1.5 FTE (temp)
• $80,000 - Ongoing evaluation and data collection
• $50,000 - Compliance Audits
• $50,000 - DON / SDOT Equity Outreach
• $50,000 - Adaptive cycle share partnership
• Bike Parking Program
• $400,000 - Designated bike share parking

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Other Changes

• More robust data requirements
• Rule consistency with Seattle’s suburbs
• Fleet re-allocation ability
• Tighter required response times for blocking hazards
• Tighter permit language and definitions

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Planned Next Steps

• July 23rd – Fee update to full

council

• July 24th – Permit requirements

and applications released

• August 31 – New permits in

place

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Questions?

Joel Miller Bike Share Program Manager Seattle Department of Transportation Joel.Miller@Seattle.gov 206-684-7639

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Evaluation Results

Citywide Coverage

• Concentrated in:
• Center City, U-District, Along Burke-

Gilman Trail

• Better than expected:
• Rainier Valley, Industrial District,

Georgetown

• Improvement Needed:
• Edges of city
• Southwest Seattle

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Evaluation Results – Improvement Needed

• Parking was the biggest challenge
• 70-80% of bikes are parked correctly
• 15-25% incorrectly parked but not

fully blocking

• 5% fully blocking pedestrian access